Animation In Android

As I sat at work on Friday afternoon I could feel the beginning of a cold coming. It felt like it was going to be a mild one but so far this weekend my mind has been a little foggy.

Not wanting to code on any of my main projects and make mistakes that I would come have to find at a later date I decide it was best to continue working on the little android app I have been playing with.

I decide it was time to take a look at animation and how to slide views in out out of list views. Turns out this is a pretty common thing to want to do. Hence stack overflow quickly took any mystery out of the basic process. It is amazing how just adding a few transition animations make the app feel a lot more profession and polished. Adding animation is pretty simple.

I am sure I have said before but it does seem like stackoverflow if facilitating code re-use on a massive scale. Perhaps it is also demonstrating how much of programming that people do has been done many times by many people. Often you think you are doing something original but find there are whole thread discussing the problem.

Anyway I am treating this app as a bit of a learning experiment in the sense I am wanting to produce a reasonably well polished app by using the power of the android api's rather than doing stuff myself - my usual instinct. Basically I want to learn how to bling up my apps and give them a better feel. A sort of get my brain back into android app development and start to push my skills to the next level.

I am in no hurry to publish as the game I am working is taking precedent but I can feel myself wanting to update the UI in Days Until and possibly remove some of my more amateur looking apps.

Tomorrow night I should be returning to the little game I have been working on as my brain feels like it is starting to clear.